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12:45 PM ET, September 8, 2006

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William Triplett / Variety:
Pols pound 'Path'  —  Under fire, ABC mulls yanking mini  —  "The Path to 9/11" is looking a lot like "The Reagans, Part II."  —  Bill Clinton loyalists are demanding wholesale changes to the upcoming miniseries — and while ABC is making some snips, the alterations, insiders say, may not please the Dems.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Harvey Keitel speaks out on Path to 9/11: "It turned out not all the facts were correct"  —  Harvey Keitel speaks out on "Showbiz Tonight about the controversy ABC's "Path to 9/11" has caused and in which he stars.  —  Video-WMP Video-QT (rough transcript-not full)
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
ABC to Alter Show on Pre-9/11 Run-Up  —  ABC plans to make minor changes to its docudrama on the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in response to heated complaints from former Clinton administration officials that a number of scenes are fabricated, a network executive said yesterday.
New York Times:
Passions Flare as Broadcast of 9/11 Mini-Series Nears  —  Under growing pressure from Democrats and aides to former President Bill Clinton, ABC is re-evaluating and in some cases re-editing crucial scenes in its new mini-series "The Path to 9/11" to soften its portrait of the Clinton administration's pursuit …
New York Post:   'PATH' MISSED REAL
Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC: '9/11' mini 'fictional'
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Hindrocket / Power Line:
DID THE DEMS THREATEN ABC?
Discussion: Townhall.com and Riehl World View
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Interrogation Methods Rejected by Military Win Bush's Support  —  Many of the harsh interrogation techniques repudiated by the Pentagon on Wednesday would be made lawful by legislation put forward the same day by the Bush administration.  And the courts would be forbidden from intervening.
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CBS News:
Armitage On CIA Leak: 'I Screwed Up'  —  CBS Exclusive: Interview With Man Who 'Outed' CIA Agent Valerie Plame  —  (CBS) In an exclusive interview with CBS News national security correspondent David Martin, Richard Armitage, once the No. 2 diplomat at the State Department, couldn't be any blunter.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Armitage 'Fesses Up  —  Richard Armitage finally confesses …
Discussion: New York Times and Redstate
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Lawyers and G.O.P. Chiefs Resist Proposal on Tribunal  —  The Bush administration's proposal to bring leading terrorism suspects before military tribunals met stiff resistance Thursday from key Republicans and top military lawyers who said some provisions would not withstand legal scrutiny …
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Washington Post:
Bush's Detainee Plan Is Criticized
Discussion: Legal Fiction
New York Times:
Conservatives Help Wal-Mart, and Vice Versa  —  As Wal-Mart Stores struggles to rebut criticism from unions and Democratic leaders, the company has discovered a reliable ally: prominent conservative research groups like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Manhattan Institute.
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Lamont Criticizes Lieberman's 1998 Rebuke of Clinton Over Affair  —  Ned Lamont, Connecticut's Democratic Senate candidate, has sharply criticized Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's public rebuke of former President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, suggesting this week …
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Tom Bevan / The RCP Blog:
Election '06 Senate Briefs
Discussion: Townhall and Redstate
Redstate:
3,000 People Still Die  —  LIBERALS CAN'T CHANGE EVERY SCENE IN "THE PATH TO 9/11"  —  As reported earlier today, the Democratic Leadership of the United States Senate sent a threatening letter to the Walt Disney Company.  For what effect - and to what end - we will have to wait and see.
Rasmussen Reports:
Tennessee Senate: Ford Within 1  —  Corker (R) 45% Ford (D) 44%  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports election survey shows U.S. Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. closing in on Bob Corker in what has become one of the country's marquee Senate races.  Ford now trails Corker by a single point, 44% to 45% (see crosstabs).
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Iraq: A Civil War We Can Still Win  —  As the Democrats turn themselves into the antiwar party, as popular support for the war continues to sink, as some who initially signed on to the war now heap scorn on the entire Iraqi project, the question of immediate withdrawal must be confronted.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Down the Homestretch, the House Wanders Off Course  —  Let us stipulate, as the lawyers like to say, that horses should not be slaughtered for human consumption.  —  Let us further stipulate that there is nothing inherently offensive about minting coins to commemorate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
Antonio D. French / PUB DEF:
McCaskill Rallies Democrats, Aide Kicks Jeff Smith Out of Meeting  —  PUB DEF EXCLUSIVE  —  U.S. Senate candidate Claire McCaskill met yesterday with several St. Louis area Democratic elected officials to emphasize the importance of the upcoming statewide elections and to heal whatever wounds …
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
JOHN BOLTON CONFIRMATION IS DEAD  —  Several well-placed sources close to the Bolton nomination process have reported to me that the Bolton confirmation process is now dead.  —  The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is "highly unlikely" to reconsider Bolton's confirmation again as things now stand.
Discussion: All Spin Zone and MyDD
Associated Press:
Sen. Cantell helped lobbyist's clients  —  WASHINGTON - Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell (news, bio, voting record) helped arrange more than $11 million in federal money in the past year for projects benefiting clients of a lobbyist who is advising her re-election campaign and still owes her money from a personal loan.
Daily Mail:
Muslim fury after bikini model claimed to be Pakistan's entry  —  A prize winning bikini contest model who claimed she was the Pakistani representative has sparked outrage in the predominantly muslim country.  —  Stunning Mariyah Moten, 22, won the 'Best in Media' title …
Discussion: The Bullwinkle Blog
Senator Bill Frist:
A Triumph for Transparency in Government  —  Tonight I'm proud to report that the Senate unanimously passed S. 2590, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.  —  The passage of this legislation is a triumph for transparency in government, for fiscal discipline …
 
 
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